Thank you very much that is what i was looking for.
On 30 Jul 2006 13:18:51 -0700, "Ant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Traveler wrote:
>> yes this is great i will work from that but how can i use say a list
>> to pass 10 words?
>>
>> mylist = ['word1','word2','word3','word4']
>...
>> >for root, dirs, files in os.walk('~/mydir'):
>> > for file in [f for f in files if f.endswith(".txt")]:
>> > fh = open(file)
>> > for line in fh:
>> > # Search for words.
>> > fh.close()
>
>The following will allow you to search a line of text for one of a list
>of words.
>
>import re
>
>line = "line of text"
>mylist = ["bogus", "text", "here"]
>
>p = re.compile(r"\b(%s)\b" % '|'.join(mylist))
>m = p.search(line)
>if m: print "Found %s" % m.group(1)
>
>Alternatively, the following will give a list of all words in a string
>that appear in the list:
>
>words_found = [word for word in re.split(r"\W+", line) if word in
>mylist]
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